Connecticut western news., 1887-01-05
THE NEWS OF A DAY
Interesting Notes from all
 Sections of the World.
WHAT IS GOING ON AT HOME AND
 ABROAD.

! Domingo " l Three mon were killed at Angus, Iowa. by
 an exploding boiler ' l mone man Was killed and five injured by a | iaihpg water tank at a St. Louis brewery ! Mrs John Burke, of Scranton. Pa. was
 purhea 10 death by an exploding oil lamA
 rDynanllte Was placed uniler the car track
 ol the san Francisco railroads, bu, was discov-
 cred before it could be exploded. l -MeiSln w. Higgins, night editor of the ! Ioftiand (Me) Edstert A,gus, ran to q fire
 at a. m, reported 1t and then died l The Philadelphi. and Reading Coal and
 iinn company hay, issued circular of prices, | ao'aiiclnS pea coal l5 cents per ton. | Sam Blac'-, colorcd, and his two children ! @ "sro burned 'o death in Blacks hou,c, near | drunk ""' | -Sldney B. Abbott, local editor of the Geo: ses, \. C., NetcS, was run over and killed | In tournament. He had just won the first | pllze and had crowned the queen. | -Can1l boatmen prQtes. that excessive 1 terminal charges in New York are driving away
 the gram trade, and ask that s ,OO0, 900 be ap- l propriated for canal Improvements 1 Harvard College is in luck again. Miser | ofeenleai hed few weeks ago and left all his 1 property, some S150,OOO, to Harvard John | c. \. Williams has just left S4OO, ,OOO to Har- l ward.
 | -Canadas new law concerning American
 fishermen Ill British waters is regarded by the | latter as reaseertion of the ''from headland
 to headland idea that will be freely disre- | garded.
 | .WD.iam Lester fell into a vat of prussio
 acid .. candle factory in Cincinnati and was | cs.ded to death.
 | One of the mon on trial for train wrockinp ! at Wyandotte, Kan, has confesse1 the crime I of which they are accused. 1 By tue burning of the steamer Bradish | Johnson on the Tombigbee River Ala, where
 she had been used as lodging house, several | lives were lost
 -Tho death of General William w. Loring,
 Pacha, formerly of the United States army and
 the Confederate army, and later commander of
 Loung's corps in the Egyptian army, occurred
 ill New York.
 l The Board of Estimate and Apportion-
 ment of New York city completed the city I budget for 1877. The amount necessary to l run the Gity government for 1877 is S3l, ,657,-
 s7S55. This is S764, gre. 50 less than last year. | At tho last moment the Board increased the
 police estimate slOO, GOO for signal boxes to be | iocs led throughout. the city. | Cook, one of tho express robbers, reported
 to have made confession, in which he stated | that -Fotheringham, the express messenger I who ls now in jail charged with complicitv in | the robbery, knew all about the plan to rob
 m ms f. car and was willing victim to the attack 1 of the robbers. It is said that he was prom
 lsed SlO,OO0 of the amount stolen as his share
 of tine booty
 | FOREIGN ITEMS. | -Brigands have been attacking and plun-
 dering houses in Caputerra, Sardinia. They | attacked some silver mines at Montelimas but | were frustrated. | The rumor that the Czar of Russia had ! killed one of his aides, was untrue 1t was I stated that the aide was in waiting in one of
 the palace apartments, and having thrown | aside his ccat on account of being warm, the Czar entered, and as tho officer hastily seized | the garment to put it on the CZar killed him